The other day while at the gym, the TV was showing CNN. I couldn’t see the screen clearly, but the segment was about unusual clouds in New York… and how some people saw Michael Jackson’s face in them. At the time I thought the segment was serious, but in fact it was Jeanne Moos doing her gag schtick, as you can see on You Tube:

If you’re wondering about the actual MJ shot, here you go:

That’s a screen grab from the video. I suppose it looks a bit like Jackson, though, like most examples of faces in the clouds, it looks more like Lou Ferrigno. Or maybe a zombie. Take your pick.

Incidentally, the clouds in question here are called mammatus, and are actually quite common here in Colorado, and I’ve taken a lot of pictures of them, like the one shown here. I remember the first time I ever saw mammatus clouds; I was in Maryland and the remnants of a hurricane had swept through. The clouds were like little bulbs hanging down, and I had never seen anything like it before… so I’m not surprised that people freaked out a little.

But I wonder, just how many people really did think this was a sign of some sort?

14. greg Says: “The first thing that came to my mind was Martin Landau’s character Andro in The Outer Limits episode ‘The Man Who Was Never Born’ ”

Or John Merrick (the “Elephant Man”) for another MJ connection.

In the freeze frame on the video link, I see a really buffed-up Gort. His head/helmet is immediately to the right of the click-arrow, and his body extends diagonally to the right and down. His muscular right arm is folded across his ripped abdomen and he’s got huuuUUUuuge tracts of land, uh, pectorals.

@Merle: Yeah, things get names like that when guys name ’em. Canada for example is proud of its “Les Grandes Tetons” while puritanical USA can only name mountains “Twin Peaks”. Birds have names like “booby”, “tit”, “shag” and there are a few more I can’t recall offhand.

In the central U.S., these clouds are often (although by no means always) associated with tornadoes, so they actually can be a sign in some cases. As for the “face”, I also see the resemblance to Nixon.

Obviously my ability to detect patterns is defective, I cant see a face, nevermind that of Michael Jackson, even after watching the video that overlays his face over clouds, presumably to show you where to look

It’s obviously the shadow of someone walking in front of a movie light of some kind. There’s a light right there in the open doorway. The “ghost” wasn’t walking across the hallway in front of the door, but is on the back wall. You can see it move across the fireplace and it’s reflected in the floor.

“Just thinking how many months/years Weekly World News will have with MJ.”

I made the same sort of prediction when Princess Di was killed. Sad to say, I was correct.